Week Two: day 10

Week in Review 

A year from Now, 

You may wish you started Today.

-Karen Lamb

Attempting to write an essay with a 300+ word count about health, wellness, lifestyle change and the project to carry them out 3x a week is actually too much for me right now.  Instead of working on me and my environment, I agonized over what I am not writing.  Overwhelming myself with information and methods for a better life.  So many people are doing it and so many have their reasons.  They are also successful which might annoy me a little bit.  Even when it had been a struggle for them, they have achieved their goals.  I am stuck in the process or sometimes stuck in the pre-process.  It kills the motivations.  So the plan for the weekend is to keep the enthusiasm and regulate.  What does that mean?  An unhealthy habit that is deeply embedded is lack of sleep.  Part of the change in lifestyle is to maintain the healthier sleep routine.  I may have mentioned it in an earlier post.  Decent hours of sleep continue to elude me.  Experts say 6 0r 8 hours are good for most adults.  However factors like obesity, work schedule and poor choices in general are causing people to lose sleep hours more and more each year.   I get thrown off my sleep schedule on the weekends, once it is ruined, I am messed up for the rest of week.  It takes days to get back to some semblance of normal.  This writer lives on three to four hours of sleep and constant fatigue.  There are poor food choices and lethargy. If analyze correctly one can see how they feed off each other like the cute-eats-cute logo.  Disturbing but still pleasant to look at.

The Week in review, so far it has been meh, slow and uneventful. There was no setbacks but there was also no progress either.  There is a food journal in the works, which will be extended to 3 weeks instead of two weeks recommended.  The idea of food journal has been introduced to me before.   Reasons include just becoming aware of what an individual puts into their mouths.  Another reason is the calorie counter, although we are not using that aspect of the food journal at this time.  The food journal is just a way to see how we handle food in general.  Awareness is part of the battle. Consistency is another part.  Sometime next week I would explain all that is included in the food journal, an honest analysis of what kind of foods I am taking into my body.

The search for a satisfying exercise routine will continue. A suggestion was made that whatever routine chosen it should be something the person likes to do, i.e. if you don’t like to run, don’t put it in your plan.  Having an exercise plan that doesn’t fit the person, is a road for ruin.  It becomes an obstacle, that later kills motivation.  Dancing is very helpful.  However we also have to consider target areas.  Personal obstacle is there is no desire to exercise at all.  This writer is an inside person, last year I tricked myself into walking for a cup of coffee and writing time.  It was the perfect scheme.  Daily exercise with writing time and coffee.  I liked that trick.  I want to continue easing into a positive lifestyle change.  This will also mean that I have to limit my time on certain activities.  This week is not looking forward to the weekend, this is probably due to the fatigue.  Time is precious and efficiency is so important. These are the goals for the next week and weekend.

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